New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-20
THE PRACTICAL ISSUE.

People of other States marvel that New
York is doubtful This State loved Lincoln,
nobly upheld the Union cause, sustained Grant
and elected Garfield. No other State has
deeper interest in the protection OF home IN
dustry, and nowhere else is the Democratic
hostility TO protection more uncqulvocally de-
clared The farmers of Newly orlI need de-
fence against Canadian competition, OF which
the schemes Of President ClcvcandS Admin
istration would deprive them. The State Is
crowded with furnaces and mills, factories ana
salt works. from which thousands OF workmcn
would be driven by the avowcd policy OF the
Democratic party. Even in this great import
ING CITY, where the wealth Of foreign houses,
acquired by undcrseiling products OF American
labor, and in part by dcfraudlnG the Govern
mcnt. is poured out without stint to aid the
foes of protcction-cvcn here the voters en-
I,ioyed in various manufactures whose en-
pioymcnt and wages depend on the mante-
nance of an American tariff faroulnumDer all
the employees Of importing houses ct New
York is called doubtful.
The Republican party ought to have Ioo'OOO
majority in such a State as this at the eicctlon
thrcc weeks hence. With excellent candidates.
with its splendid record, and with the Demo
cratic avowal of frcc-tradc purposes ana inc
championship of the saloon the majority for
the Republican party should be overwhelming
The state of business and OF foreign TRADE
makes such victory peculiarly necessary al
this time. Home industries arc already arrested
in their progress. and threatened with reaction,
because vastly increased ImporatlonS OF iron
al Of ro,l and al cloths. have Dccn
permitted by Democratic interpretations OF law,
and still more by wholesale eyasons OF law
with connivancc Of Democratic officials. mus
threatened and already checked, home nduStr!
is warned that the Administration and the DEM
ocratic party will make tremendous cior'
next winter to break down the tariff, as step
toward the reelection Of President Cleveland.
A sweeping Republican victory three weeks
hence, if ii should have no other erect IMAM
to stop that warfare against industries Whlch
support two-thirds Of the voters OF NeW-l ork'
W ould be worth many millions to those voters
in single year.
This is no time for waste OF votes In FAVOR
of Prohibition ticket which hurts the cause OF
temperance and serves the purposes OF liquor
sellers. What life and hope the Democratic
energy Of the liquor interest which could well
afford to spend $40 for every Prohibition vote
in this State, if 1t could thus defeat the Only
party by which the liquor traiiIc can be praou-
caiiy restrained This year voters who SIN
cerciy wish to promote the cause of temperance
are compelled to choose between rum-Sc'IihS
victory through the success of the Democratic
ticket. or a Republican triumph with incaicu-
liable gains alike for the cause of home industry
and for the cause Of temperance.
This State will give a phenomenal hcpuD
lican majority if all voters who really prefer
Republican principles and policies to Demo
cratic can be brought TO cast votes that count,
instead Of votes that are wasted 10 inc
natural Republican plurality there should be
added every honest temperance voter VINO docS
not want to help the liquor interest, and every
Democratic voter who does not want to hclp
foreigners to break down American INDUSTRIES